Archaeologia Adriatica, Vol. 2 No. 2, 2008.
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The Underwater Archaeological Heritage in the Kaštela Bay
Irena Radić Rossi
; Hrvatski restauratorski zavod, Odjel za podvodnu arheologiju
Sažetak
The Kaštela Bay represents a distinct geographically determined unit that encompassed the area between Trogir on the west and Split on the east. The exceptionally favorable natural conditions predicated its intensive settlement during various historical periods, but the merciless devastation of the landscape during the 20th century negatively affected the preservation of its natural, cultural, and historical heritage. The first underwater finds attracted the attention of experts as early as in the 19th century. These were Roman sarcophagi in the shallow sea along the western coast of the small peninsula of Vranjica, where the first organized underwater documentation of archaeological finds in Croatia took place in 1899. In the 1950s an important site was discovered in the Spinut quarter in Split, and at the end of the 1980s an important site from the prehistoric, Hellenistic, and Roman periods in the tourist village of Resnik. A series of new finds in the area of Kaštela, Pantana and Kopilica near Trogir, rescue excavations at Vranjica, and the new discoveries at Spinut and Resnik prove that valuable and fascinating elements of the archaeological heritage have been preserved underwater in the Kaštela Bay. This refers particularly to wooden structures that indicate an intensive marine economy in the period of antiquity and the early Middle Ages, and in the case of Vranjica, the existence has been confirmed of an important prehistoric settlement. Although the situation in the Bay is gradually changing, the brutal attitude to the natural and culturalhistorical heritage has still not been eradicated, and many underwater sites are directly endangered by construction and the dynamics of life along the coastline. Hence with the aim of providing sufficient protection of the underwater
archaeological sites and finds, it will be necessary to carry out as soon as possible a systematic underwater survey of the Kaštela Bay.
Ključne riječi
Kaštelanski zaljev (Kaštela Bay); underwater finds
Hrčak ID:
37125
URI
Datum izdavanja:
23.5.2009.
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